A loyal macaw charmed police officers as it posed with its owner for a court mugshot.<\/p>\n
The four-year-old macaw, named Bird, posed with its owner Craig Buckner who appeared in an Oregon court suspected of a drug and theft offence.<\/p>\n
Buckner had earlier left his pet in a tree outside court last Thursday as he waited for the case.<\/p>\n
But when he fell asleep while waiting, he was taken for a drug urine test and failed and was arrested, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt Bob Ray said.<\/p>\n
“He was very concerned about Bird the bird,” Ray said. “Very distraught.”<\/p>\n
Bird was 30ft up the tree, Ray said, and it was getting dark and rainy with cold temperatures.<\/p>\n
So deputies allowed Buckner to go outside and call his pet macaw to him and bring him inside.<\/p>\n
Sgt Ray said: “[Bird] was very well trained and would not leave the tree for anyone other than Mr Buckner.”<\/p>\n
The macaw stayed with deputies for several hours and feasted on peanuts until they contacted a friend who could pick Bird up.<\/p>\n
While they waited, deputies let Buckner’s feathered friend sit on his shoulder in a set up booking shot, just for kicks.<\/p>\n
But when they took a real mugshot of Buckner, Bird still managed to photo bomb it with a few of his colourful features, Ray said.<\/p>\n
“We’re not all robots. We’re humans, we love animals and we want to do the right thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“For the animal, and for Mr. Buckner too.”<\/p>\n
Source: \u00a0ITV News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"